The concept of The Boyfriend, Japan’s first same-sex reality show, is not unfamiliar: a group of nine gay men live in a house together for a month. The goal? To forge lifelong friendships and to find ...

The first season of the series — which featured nine men living together in a luxury house outside Tokyo — won fans around the world with its relaxed and non-exploitative approach to the dating show ...

Netflix has greenlit a second season of its groundbreaking Japanese same-sex dating reality series “The Boyfriend,” following the show’s impressive performance both domestically and internationally.

Netflix is expanding its unscripted slate with “Offline Love,” a unique Japanese dating series that challenges modern romance by stripping away digital devices. Set to premiere globally on Feb. 18, ...

Looking at the dating shows of today, it would be hard to believe that the classic reality TV shows about finding love used to actually be about finding love. From recent seasons of The Bachelor and ...

Producers of “The Boyfriend” on Netflix hope it will encourage broader acceptance of the L.G.B.T.Q. community in Japan, which still has not legalized same-sex unions. By Motoko Rich and Kiuko Notoya ...

As marriage equality inches toward reality in Japan, Netflix is returning to the East Asian country for another shot at love. On Sunday, the streamer announced Season 2 of its same-sex dating show The ...